Burnham Opens Labour Conference With Pledge of Hope and Change
Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged to reduce youth unemployment for the 981,000 people currently out of work, statistics show, while outlining a 10-year plan for government.
- On Tuesday, Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivered his first conference speech in Liverpool, pledging to launch a National Care Service and end the pension triple lock from 2030 to fund social care.
- Replacing Sir Keir Starmer in July, Burnham promised to 'break with the direction of the past 40 years' and return to traditional Labour values, emotionally referencing his recently deceased father, Roy.
- Legislation planned for later this year aims to repeal the 'ideological ban on public ownership of water companies,' placing the UK on a 10-year path to a 'very different water system.'
- While delegates gave Burnham 11 standing ovations, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch claimed his speech lacked long-term economic solutions, warning he would take Britain 'back to the 1970s' with increased government control.
- His new GB Grid company aims to reduce energy prices to European levels within 10 years, alongside a proposed national commission on electoral reform to ensure 'everyone's voice is heard' at the next election.
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There has been a coup. The Government has been supplanted, and a left-wing neo-communist Government has been put in its place. Two years ago, people voted for Sir Keir Starmer, a soft left, almost Blairite figure who in his manifesto was really promising not to frighten any horse in sight. There was the so-called Ming vase strategy that they had to carry the vase so carefully and not slip up on a polished floor, so they would get in and get the …
"All together now." With those words, Prime Minister Andy Burnham opened his speech today at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool. It was a reference to The Beatles, the world-famous heritage of the city where he addressed his party and the country, for the first time as leader of the British Social Democrats. "Together we draw a line under the division," said the Prime Minister, who took office two months ago as Starmer's successor. "And w…
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